Although educational outreach programs sometimes get short shrift in academic circles in terms of prioritizing, funding and staffing, a new Texas A&M University study indicates they are a solid investment with benefits far beyond the institutional bottom line when it comes to physics. Physicists and learning scientists at Texas A&M and the University of Texas […]
Three academic programs in the Texas A&M University College of Science are among the world’s top 50 in the Shanghai Ranking 2021 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS). Statistics paced the College of Science, coming in at 18th worldwide and 15th among U.S. universities within the 200 total global institutions ranked in the discipline. Chemistry […]
Every summer, incoming Aggie freshmen report to Reed Arena for Fish Camp with stuffed luggage bags and vague expectations of the week ahead. By the time they find a parking spot in Lot 100, most of those expectations have already vanished. Up and down the sidewalk and throughout the lot, camp counselors clad head-to-toe in […]
Researchers in the Texas A&M University Department of Physics and Astronomy have been awarded a three-year, $1.27 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in support of their world-leading detector research and development work that continues to play a key role in the SuperCDMS dark matter search experiment and other major projects at […]
Texas A&M University astronomer Dr. Lucas Macri has been selected as one of the university’s four Southeastern Conference (SEC) Academic Leadership Development Program (ALDP) Fellows for 2021-2022, announced Texas A&M Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost Dr. Blanca Lupiani. Each year the SEC offers its 14 member schools a unique opportunity to foster potential academic […]
Sophomore physics major Connor Bowerman ’24 has been selected as one of two 2021-22 Beckman Scholars at Texas A&M University, as announced April 28 by the Texas A&M LAUNCH: Honors Program. The Beckman Scholars Program is a 15-month mentored research experience for exceptional undergraduate students in chemistry, biological sciences or interdisciplinary combinations thereof at selected universities […]
Texas A&M physicist Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova is one of three university faculty members who have been appointed to 2021 University Professorships in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (UPUTE) at Texas A&M University. Erukhimova, an instructional professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will hold one of two Eppright Professorships in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, a three-year appointment […]
Astronomers from Texas to Argentina recently celebrated a critical milestone in their nearly decade-long project to search for and measure the electromagnetic evidence of gravitational waves throughout the cosmos — “first light” for the Transient Optical Robotic Observatory of the South (TOROS) telescope in northwestern Argentina. On April 10, a team of engineers and astronomers […]
If the success of the Lead by Example campaign has sent one message, it is this: Texas A&M University is ready to take its next big step forward. With its resources, leadership and famously loyal network of former students, there is little reason for Texas A&M to aim for any standard less than that of the greatest public […]
Texas A&M University and its partners in the Giant Magellan Telescope Corporation announced today (Mar. 5) that fabrication has begun for the sixth of seven mirrors which will form the heart of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) — mirrors that in combination will allow astronomers to see farther into the universe with more detail than […]
A new data-driven study from Texas A&M University casts serious doubt on the long-held belief that male students perform better than female students in science — specifically, physics. A team of researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy analyzed both the midterm exam scores and final grades of more than 10,000 Texas A&M students […]
Texas A&M University invites audiences across Texas, the nation and the world to get up-close and personal with science and technology outreach at the 2021 Physics and Engineering Festival, set for Saturday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. as an interactive livestreamed event. With the same COVID-19 restrictions that canceled the 2020 festival […]
Fourteen research projects — including two led by faculty from the Texas A&M University College of Science — have been chosen for 2020-2021 funding under The Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office Collaborative Research Program aimed at increasing engagement between Texas A&M System and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers. Each fall, researchers are […]
The Texas A&M University chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has been recognized by the association’s national office as a 2019-2020 SPS Outstanding Chapter. Texas A&M’s SPS chapter, housed within the Department of Physics and Astronomy and advised by Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs Alexey Belyanin, was recognized for the first time […]
Texas A&M University physics professor M. Suhail Zubairy once proposed a scenario to his freshman class: If he were to throw a ball against a wall, common sense tells us that there is no probability it can go through the wall to reach the other side. But by the principles of quantum mechanics, under certain […]
Three years into its quest to reveal the nature of dark energy, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) led by The University of Texas at Austin and involving Texas A&M University is on track to complete the largest map of the cosmos ever — a three-dimensional map of 2.5 million galaxies that will help astronomers […]
One of the biggest challenges organizations face among the many potential hazards they encounter when sending humans and aerospace systems traveling through the endless reaches of the cosmos is the harsh radiation environment. All it takes is a single rogue particle to wreak havoc on the electronic components of a spacecraft with potentially catastrophic results. […]
Dr. Edward S. Fry, distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive The Oceanography Society’s 2020 Nils Gunnar Jerlov Award. The Jerlov Award, named for ocean optics research pioneer Nils Gunnar Jerlov and funded by NASA and the U.S. Office of Naval Research, is bestowed every two years to […]
Dr. Bhaskar Dutta, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University and director of the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, has been elected as a 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the world’s largest organization of physicists. No more than one-half of 1 percent of […]
Earlier this month, crews at Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory celebrated a major milestone in astronomy — the first 3,200-megapixel digital photographs taken with the world’s largest digital camera for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The collection of images, which are the largest ever captured in a […]
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